Dancing puppet



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS P. GOLDSBOROUGH, OF. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

DANCING PU PPET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,757, dated March18, 1890.

Application filed May 25, 1889. Serial No. 312,021. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs P. GoLDsBoR- OUGH, of the city of Baltimore,and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvenients inDancingPuppets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of dancingpuppets in which the figures are suspended by means of a thread, whichis worked or moved by some person at a distance, so. as to make themdance on a table or other stationary object.

The said invention consists in two figures or puppets suspended togetherso as to represent a dancing couple, which are separated by means of aspacing device, which will not be visible in a darkened room, and yet besufiiciently stiif or rigid to preserve the distance between thefigures.

In the further description of the said in-.

vention which follows, reference is made to the accompanying drawings,forming a part hereof, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of apair of dancing puppets suspended from a gas bracket by means of athread leading to a distance and the top of a table on which the puppetsarerepresented as dancing. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the spacingdevice used to keep the puppets at a desired distance apart.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures.

In the said drawings, A represents the top of a table, and B agas-bracket, from which the puppets O C are suspended by means of athread D. This .thread is attached to the top of a spacing device E,which consists of E, where they are fastened and continued to sisting ofa straight bar.

fastened. The object in making the spreader E in the form of a ring orsome other figure substantially the same is that it can be made of muchthinner material and still have the requisite strength and rigidity toprevent the figures from swinging unduly toward and from each other, aswould be the case if a single straight or curved piece of wire was usedand the threads securedto its ends.

the top of the ring, Where they are again By attaching the threads firstto the sides where it is moved by hand, so as to make the 1 figuresdance on the table, and if the figures are made white and the threadsand the spacing device black, and the room is darkened, a very peculiareifect is produced, the figures appearing to be dancing. without the aid.of any actuating mechanism. l V

I- am aware that dancing puppets have been separated by means of aspacing device con- Such a bar has no inherent strength or rigidityother than that consequent on the size of the bar employed. My ring isself-braced, and therefore may be made of much smaller wire than couldbe employed when astraight bar is used. The shape then becomes of vitalimportance.

I claim as my invention- In combination with the threads D, the ring E,threads F and G, attached to the sides of the said ring and with theirends connected to the top of the same, and the puppets C, suspended bythe said threads, substantially as specified.

LOUIS P. GOLDSBOROUGH. \Vitnesses:

WM. T. HOWARD, GEO. MOOAEERAY.

